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A Turkish forensics teams finished a search for evidence in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul early Tuesday morning over the disappearance and alleged slaying of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi, as reports circulated that the kingdom may concede the killing took place there. Technicians in coveralls, gloves and covered shoes treated the consulate, where Khashoggi vanished two weeks ago, as a crime scene during their hourslong search. It wasn't immediately clear what evidence they gathered. President Donald Trump, after speaking with Saudi King Salman, dispatched Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to speak to the monarch of the world's top oil exporter over Khashoggi's disappearance. Trump himself said without offering evidence that the slaying could have been carried out by "rogue killers," offering the U.S.-allied kingdom a possible path out of a global diplomatic firestorm. However, left unsaid was the fact that any decision in the ultraconservative kingdom rests solely with the ruling Al … [Read more...] about Top US Diplomat Heads to Saudi Arabia Over Missing Writer

If scientists engineered the polar opposite of Donald Trump, a bizarro-world version of the rage-tweeting, fancy-living, drama-stirring mogul-turned-president, their lab might produce Gwen Graham. The former stay-at-home mom who hopes to become Florida’s first woman governor is almost everything Trump is not. She is a serial hugger, a frequent crier, a penny-pincher who buys her clothing at Target, an animal lover who posts pictures of her dogs and bunny on Facebook. The only organization she’s ever run was the PTA at her children’s school; the only time she’s spent in the public eye was as a one-term Democratic congresswoman. She’s a self-described nerd who hooks her granny-style glasses around her belt loop, an earnest consensus-builder who works so hard to find common ground that her ex-husband is her campaign treasurer. She listens. She empathizes. She exercises. She worries about her PolitiFact ratings. She’s so eager to learn that I watched her … [Read more...] about Do Democrats Want an Anti-Trump, or Their Own Trump?

An attendant at Second Baptist Church holds a memorial card she was given after viewing former First Lady Barbara Bush's casket lying in repose at St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Houston, Texas on April 20, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Daniel KRAMERDANIEL KRAMER/AFP/Getty Images Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush places his hand on the casket of his mother, former first lady Barbara Bush during a funeral service at St. Martin's Episcopal Church, Saturday, April 21, 2018, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip , Pool) Sound The gallery will resume inseconds HOUSTON, TX - APRIL 21: The coffin of former first lady Barbara Bush is carried from St. Martin's Episcopal Church following her funeral service as her son, former president George W. Bush, and family walk behind on April 21, 2018 in Houston, Texas. Bush, wife of former president George H. W. Bush and mother of former president George W. Bush, died at her home in Houston on April 17 at the age of 92. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty … [Read more...] about An old-school proper goodbye for Barbara Bush, a first lady of grace and grit